For therefore he sent unto us in Babylon, saying, This captivity is long: build ye houses, and dwell in them; and plant gardens, and eat the fruit of them.
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Of Judah, Elihu, one of the brethren of David: of Issachar, Omri the son of Michael:
1 Chronicles
History / EzraYet I have left me seven thousand in Israel, all the knees which have not bowed unto Baal, and every mouth which hath not kissed him.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahTo many thou shalt give the more inheritance, and to few thou shalt give the less inheritance: to every one shall his inheritance be given according to those that were numbered of him.
Numbers
Law / MosesAnd as David returned from the slaughter of the Philistine, Abner took him, and brought him before Saul with the head of the Philistine in his hand.
1 Samuel
HistoryAnd the bowls, and the snuffers, and the basons, and the spoons, and the censers of pure gold; and the hinges of gold, both for the doors of the inner house, the most holy place, and for the doors of the house, to wit, of the temple.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahFor a small moment have I forsaken thee; but with great mercies will I gather thee.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd I heard another out of the altar say, Even so, Lord God Almighty, true and righteous are thy judgments.
Revelation
Apocalyptic / JohnAnd Balak said unto Balaam, Come, I pray thee, I will bring thee unto another place; peradventure it will please God that thou mayest curse me them from thence.
Numbers
LawOne kid of the goats for a sin offering:
Numbers
Law / MosesHe evil entreateth the barren that beareth not: and doeth not good to the widow.
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd the children of Israel removed from Rameses, and pitched in Succoth.
Numbers
LawAnd they shall burn thine houses with fire, and execute judgments upon thee in the sight of many women: and I will cause thee to cease from playing the harlot, and thou also shalt give no hire any more.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsAnd his host, and those that were numbered of them, were threescore and two thousand and seven hundred.
Numbers
LawAnd the booty, being the rest of the prey which the men of war had caught, was six hundred thousand and seventy thousand and five thousand sheep,
Numbers
Law / MosesIf there be in the land famine, if there be pestilence, blasting, mildew, locust, or if there be caterpiller; if their enemy besiege them in the land of their cities; whatsoever plague, whatsoever sickness there be;
1 Kings
HistoryBehold, there came fire down from heaven, and burnt up the two captains of the former fifties with their fifties: therefore let my life now be precious in thy sight.
2 Kings
HistoryAnd I commanded Joshua at that time, saying, Thine eyes have seen all that the LORD your God hath done unto these two kings: so shall the LORD do unto all the kingdoms whither thou passest.
Deuteronomy
LawAnd Hazael said, But what, is thy servant a dog, that he should do this great thing? And Elisha answered, The LORD hath shewed me that thou shalt be king over Syria.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahYea, forty years didst thou sustain them in the wilderness, so that they lacked nothing; their clothes waxed not old, and their feet swelled not.
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahLet burning coals fall upon them: let them be cast into the fire; into deep pits, that they rise not up again.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersThou shalt not bow down thyself unto them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me,
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesThis is the law of the house; Upon the top of the mountain the whole limit thereof round about shall be most holy. Behold, this is the law of the house.
Ezekiel
Major Prophets / EzekielAnd they passed on and went their way; and the sun went down upon them when they were by Gibeah, which belongeth to Benjamin.